CBAT "Transient Object Followup Reports"

PSN J07413223+5141209

We discovered this object on November 17.85 2014 UT in the Tsinghua University-NAOC Transient Survey (TNTS), and the magnitude of the object on unfiltered CCD was about 19.3 mag. Discovery and reference images: http://www.thca.tsinghua.edu.cn/~wangxf/TNTS/PSNJ07413223+5141209.png

This transient was observed on 2014 12 18.88634 by G. Masi and P. Catalano, remotely using the 17"-f/6.8 robotic unit part of the Virtual Telescope Project facility, at Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Ceccano, Italy. 180-seconds exposures, unfiltered, show the source at mag. 18.1 (R mags for the reference stars from UCAC-4). We also performed astrometry, getting the following end figures: 32.17; 19.8 (J2000.0, mean residuals of 0.2" on both axes).